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Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but they’re also prized by oil drillers, road crews and experimental physicists for their unparalleled ability to bore, grind and cut. Now scientists have synthesized microscopic diamonds that are harder, tougher and more stable than any made in nature or in a lab. These new nanodiamonds boast a special pattern in their crystal structure called nanotwinning, in which adjacent crystals share an interlacing boundary and grow into mirror images of one another. That twinning gives the diamonds their extraordinary hardness, the researchers say in a study...

Back in the day, a runner hit the pavement wearing cotton shorts and a cotton T-shirt, and when things got hot, sweat turned those clothes into a big, wet, stinky mess.
Today, fitness clothing is all about nanoparticles that suspend moisture, compression...

When protesting students spilled into University of California campus courtyards this past March, Ricardo Dominguez took to the streets in his own way â digitally â leading a march to the online office of the UC president. The bespectacled associ

Need juice for a dying iPod? You may soon be able to plug the gadget into a shirt, dance the electric slide and be good to go.Researchers at UC Berkeley are perfecting microscopic fibers that can produce electricity from simple body motions such as bending, st

The arena of pesticides -â and the battle to fight bugs out in the world's farm fields -â is expanding to include an unexpected new tool: nanotechnology. That shift has scientists and researchers more than a bit concerned over what, ...